TY - BOOK ID - 101191486 TI - Neo-Gothic narratives : illusory allusions from the past AU - Maier, Sarah E. AU - Ayres, Brenda PY - 2020 SN - 1785272187 1785272179 1785272195 PB - London : Anthem Press, DB - UniCat KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre) KW - History and criticism. KW - Gothic horror tales (Literary genre) KW - Gothic novels (Literary genre) KW - Gothic romances (Literary genre) KW - Gothic tales (Literary genre) KW - Romances, Gothic (Literary genre) KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Horror tales KW - Suspense fiction KW - English literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101191486 AB - Recent years have seen the strong development of Neo-Victorian studies, including its theorisation by such scholars as Cora Kaplan, Sally Shuttleworth, Ann Heilmann, Christian Gutleben, Marie-Louise Kohlke, Mark Llewellyn and others. It is a focus that has engaged literary critics from around the globe.
Neo-Gothic Narratives
defines and theorizes what, exactly, qualifies as such a text, what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times, whether nostalgia plays a role and whether there is room for humour besides the sobriety and horror in these narratives across various media. What attracts us to the Gothic that makes us want to resurrect, reinvent, echo it? Why do we let the Gothic redefine us? Why do we let it haunt us? Does it speak to us through intertexuality, self-reflectivity, metafiction, immersion, affect? Are we reclaiming the history of women and other subalterns in the Gothic that had been denied in other forms of history? Are we revisiting the trauma of English colonisation and seeking national identity? Or are we simply tourists who enjoy cruising through the otherworld? The essays in this volume investigate both the readerly experience of Neo-Gothic narratives as well as their writerly pastiche. ER -